News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, PA, has been sentenced to 22 years' (264 months’) imprisonment and eight years of supervised release after his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: On October 6, 2020, Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced former Wind River Indian Reservation Chief Tribal Court Judge Terri Smith and her sister Jerri Lee Smith on federal drug charges. TERRI SMITH, 35, of Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and...
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: Pursuant to Section 7154(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Div. F., P.L. 116-92), the Departments of State (State) and the Treasury (Treasury), on behalf of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF),1 submit this analysis...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the selection of Adam Nickels as the Resources Manager for California-Great Basin Region’s Division of Resources Management. This division provides inter-disciplinary services for the region and its area offices, including expertise on water rights, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows today urging him to allow contact tracers to investigate the large outbreak of coronavirus cases surrounding President Trump and White House staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Peter M. McCoy, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, and Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced today that more than 40 people are facing federal charges for their roles in expansive health care fraud schemes across...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Dr. Ashu Joshi to 96 months in prison for distribution of child pornography. The 48-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in September.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers are intercepting firearms at airports across the state at a disproportionally higher rate than last year when there were far more passengers traveling. Most of the guns are loaded; some even with ammunition chambered.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Northern District of Oklahoma Charged 8 Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Plainville man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boston on child enticement and child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: CEO of Financial Firm Pleads Guilty to Running Multi-Million Dollar Securities and Tax Fraud Scheme, and Operating an Unlicensed Money Services Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Liberty, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing firearms.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to share their concerns with the HHS Program Support Center (PSC).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: National Park Service officials expect heavy traffic in Boxley Valley Historic District this fall, a popular destination for hiking, hunting, horseback riding and elk viewing in October and November. Visitors are reminded to stay safe when viewing wildlife by maintaining appropriate distances, and to create safe situations by parking only in designated parking areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant conspired to fake her own death to avoid federal fraud sentence found hiding in her own closet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: USAO-SDGA.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chinese company’s Arcadia subsidiary, established to redevelop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, has agreed to pay $1,050,000 to resolve an investigation into the company’s conduct with public officials in the City of Los Angeles, including bribery, honest services fraud, and foreign and conduit campaign contributions.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
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